Plenary sessions

Chair: Mayank Sood (Amec Foster Wheeler, Canada)Contact:Mayank.Sood@iync.org
Top managers and scientists will share their vision on key topics with young professionals.

1 Keynote and 3 plenary sessions will be held at IYNCWiN18:

Keynote session:

Challenge the present, Empower the future

Speakers:

William D. Magwood, DG, NEA

Mary Alice Hayward, DDG MT, IAEA

Juan Pablo Ordonez, Deputy CEO, INVAP

Ding Jian, VP, CNNC – China Zhongyuan Engineering Corporation (TBC)

Manager: Mr. Mayank Sood/Canada/Amec Foster Wheeler

Plenary sessions:

PLY 1 . Climate Change: Looking Forward
Manager: Ms. Kristine Madden/Austria/IAEA
A round-table discussion with the participants regarding the path forward for achieving the COP21 Paris Agreement goals and how nuclear energy and its peaceful application can play a role in that solution in combination with other low carbon energy sources.

PLY2. New Technologies, New build and major Refurbishments
Manager: Mr. Nathan Paterson/UK/Rolls-Royce

With constant increasing demand for energy, nuclear power will continue to maintain its role in the world’s low-carbon energy mix and a number of new and refurbished reactors will become operational continuously in global scale. At the session, opportunities and challenges surrounding nuclear new build and refurbishment projects will be addressed. Impact of declining natural gas prices and public opinion on nuclear after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident will be discussed as they impact the new build and refurbishment projects. Lessons Learned from some of the biggest new build and refurbishment projects will also be discussed.

Nuclear fuel has helped achieve low-carbon energy mix for decades but the large volume waste from the reactors is still not a well handled commodity. This session will focus on how nuclear science and technology can contribute to reduction of nuclear waste, discuss plans for decommissioning of nuclear sites, the challenges and opportunities that come with nuclear fuel and how this waste can be re-used. Discussion on one man’s trash is another man’s treasure for radioactive waste will be held.